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I've seen these cricket breeders for $20 at a few pet stores recently, does anyone have a review on the ease of set up? Does it come with eggs? How do you handle the maintenance of the enclosure?
its tempting ~8-legz~ except for ....crickets.......I hate crickets....*curses her picky T's*I just tried breeding crickets for the first time and I have to say it is easier than it sounds lol... I just stuck a shallow bowl with moist substrate (plantation soil) and kept a heat pad under the enclosure with a towel between the pad and enclosure so it didn't get too hot and after about two weeks I put the shallow bowl into a different enclosure and kept it moist and on the heat pad for another two weeks and now I have about a thousand or more crickets lol
Lol!its tempting ~8-legz~ except for ....crickets.......I hate crickets....*curses her picky T's*
Of my 14 spiders, My albo will eat a dubia, everyone else thinks I'm trying to poison them .
Only the GBB will eat the dubai in my collection. But then again he'll try and eat anything that touches his web, even a make up brush Everything else i have runs away from the dubai, even the genic won't eat them and they're a 1/4 of his size lol.its tempting ~8-legz~ except for ....crickets.......I hate crickets....*curses her picky T's*
Of my 14 spiders, My albo will eat a dubia, everyone else thinks I'm trying to poison them .
I can't believe your GBB eats the entire city of Dubai!Only the GBB will eat the dubai in my collection. But then again he'll try and eat anything that touches his web, even a make up brush Everything else i have runs away from the dubai, even the genic won't eat them and they're a 1/4 of his size lol.
well not the structures of course, just the cows and peopleI can't believe your GBB eats the entire city of Dubai!
Roaches are a much better investment. No noise, minimal smell, longer lifespan, better food source. You will have to clean crickets constantly to keep up on the smell. However if your heart is set on crickets, then it seems you've gotten the gist of quality advice so far. They do the work for you just provide some sort of soil for them to lay eggs. You said you have 2 tarantulas and a scorpion? I see it as more work than its worth personally, but to each their own
Agreed, not really worth a colony for that few predators.
my 9 are barely making a dent in the roach colony i started, and i don't think that's going to take for a while yet as there's only 2 females and a single male adult. Waiting on some of the larger ones to mature to see what sex they are. I'll have to feed off any more males and keep the females.
Yeah i'm going to order a colony starter on payday and set up another tub for them. This group i'm just going to feed off while that other colony does it's thing and provides me feeders to use later.I would just recommend purchasing like 10 or more females. It's kinda hard, not impossible, to start a colony with one female. Especially if you feed off all the males
they have large ones. Guess i'll have to order a batch of those and set them off to the side to mature and start a colony. Bugs me i can't find the starter colony i was looking at a while ago. Must have sold them all i guess.
Edit: So good news for those that have had lateralis escape. I always thought they would breed at room temp but they, like dubia, need 85+F temps to breed. So it looks like i need to get a heating pad after all to start my colony.